Diego Gastor story

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gansz

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Diego Gastor story

I'm trying to remember where I read (Pohren, maybe?) about Diego being presented with a new Santos Hernandez at a juerga and accidentally sitting on it and crushing the top that very evening.

Anybody remember? True, or legend?

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runner

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From: New Jersey USA

RE: Diego Gastor story (in reply to gansz)

Donn Pohren quotes Juan Talegas (who was there at the time) in Lives and Legends of Flamenco. No reason to believe it isn't a true story. "Diego danced out to the car, hurled himself drunkenly into the back seat, lit atop his beloved Santos and smashed it to pieces. The guitar never could be properly repaired, and was the last good guitar, to my knowledge, that Diego has owned." Thus Juan Talegas' account.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 14 2014 14:33:25

gansz

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RE: Diego Gastor story (in reply to gansz)

Thanks, Runner. Couldn't for the life of me remember where I read it!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 14 2014 14:58:55

Pimientito

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RE: Diego Gastor story (in reply to gansz)

If I remember the story, he was given the guitar by Sabicas.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 14 2014 16:32:20

tele

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RE: Diego Gastor story (in reply to gansz)

Nothing wrong with an epic flamenco guitarist smashing a guitar or two

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 14 2014 18:09:00

gansz

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RE: Diego Gastor story (in reply to gansz)

Well, it worked for Pete Townshend...

But those guitars were made in factories!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 14 2014 19:05:12

runner

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From: New Jersey USA

RE: Diego Gastor story (in reply to gansz)

Pohren quotes Talegas as saying that a group of friends pooled their resources to buy Diego the Santos, without naming who they were.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 14 2014 22:59:04

gansz

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RE: Diego Gastor story (in reply to gansz)

I'm assuming this would have been in the 1950s or 60s? Any idea what a Santos sold for back then?

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 15 2014 1:32:12

estebanana

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RE: Diego Gastor story (in reply to gansz)

I heard it was some of the Moron town officials who put together the money to buy the Santos.
Of course this was before I was born, so it was the late 1950's.

I was given the story from an American Hippie who said in between the Bi Annual Frisbee golf tournaments in front of the Moron City Hall, epic three day long Scrabble games at Casa Pepe and teaching Macrobiotic cooking and ornamental beading to gypsy women that she sometimes heard bits of flamenco.

The lore of Moron would be mystical to a cabbalist, were it not for the hordes of American hippies who took it upon themselves to become embedded reporters at Casa Pepe and document the Moron scene.

Thank the holy host for those hapless Hippies.

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